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Pelosi: 7 million have signed up under ACA

WASHINGTON--More than 7 million people have signed up for health care coverage through federal and state exchanges created under President Obama's signature health care law, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi confirmed Tuesday

With the announcement that came hours after the March 31 deadline to sign up for coverage, the Obama administration has cleared the initial projection for enrollees set by the Congressional Budget Office--a goal that had seemed out of reach after a rocky launch to the online federal marketplace last fall.

After meeting with President Obama at the White House on Tuesday, Pelosi said that "over 7 million people" have signed up for health care.

"Many more people now have affordable, quality health care," Pelosi said.

Obama is set to deliver remarks at 4:15 p.m. in Rose Garden about the Affordable Care Act.

After a surge of last-minute enrollment on Monday--the technical deadline to sign up for health care or face a penalty--administration officials began expressing confidence that they would meet or exceed the 7 million mark for signups.

The announcement was embraced as hopeful news by Democrats facing reelection in November, who had been feeling the weight of Obama's low popularity numbers and Republican attacks on the law.

But Mo Elleithee, the Democratic National Committee communications director, noted that public opinion over the health care law has slowly been turning in favor of Democrats. On Monday, an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that support for the law hit a record high at 49%.

"For years, Republicans have been jumping up and down, breathlessly screaming that the Affordable Care Act would be a "disaster," Elleithee wrote in an e-mail to reporters "Guess what? APRIL FOOL'S! The joke is on them."

Pelosi predicted health care won't hurt Democrats at the polls.

Democrats are "proud" of the law, she said, and "our members are out there on the offensive on this issue."

She said jobs should be the main issue in the congressional elections, and she attacked the new Republican budget.

"Elections are always about jobs," Pelosi said, and the health care law will help create jobs.

She never worried that law would "collapse." While the website problems were "an embarrassment," Pelosi said, that problem "is over."

Yet, no details on how many are paying ObamaCare enrollees, how any are the ones who lost their healthcare when the Obama admin went on their lying campaign tour, ans how many are expanded Medicaid recipients. Most importantly -how many are the young and healthy paying enrollees needed to fund ObamaCare. Obama momma fools will celebrate the 7 million without demanding accountability.

Maybe he'll address some of that stuff today. Assuming he bothers to take questions from the press this time.

Quoting jcrew6:

Yet, no details on how many are paying ObamaCare enrollees, how any are the ones who lost their healthcare when the Obama admin went on their lying campaign tour, ans how many are expanded Medicaid recipients. Most importantly -how many are the young and healthy paying enrollees needed to fund ObamaCare. Obama momma fools will celebrate the 7 million without demanding accountability.

It's been kind of a rat for us. They gave my ex husband who is my best of friend and like a brother to me a real run for his money about how long has he been in the United States. I have been in my basement digging up every up every kind of legal document you can think of for the last three days, anything with his signature that was dated through out the 80's and the 90's to prove he was in the USA way back then. You would think being that this whole bull shit is government related that they would be able to look it up for them self and verify his being here all these decades.

It's been kind of a rat for us. They gave my ex husband who is my best of friend and like a brother to me a real run for his money about how long has he been in the United States. I have been in my basement digging up every up every kind of legal document you can think of for the last three days, anything with his signature that was dated through out the 80's and the 90's to prove he was in the USA way back then. You would think being that this whole bull shit is government related that they would be able to look it up for them self and verify his being here all these decades.

Your expecting the federal government to be accountable and responsible?

Quoting 1stmuslimah:

It's been kind of a rat for us. They gave my ex husband who is my best of friend and like a brother to me a real run for his money about how long has he been in the United States. I have been in my basement digging up every up every kind of legal document you can think of for the last three days, anything with his signature that was dated through out the 80's and the 90's to prove he was in the USA way back then. You would think being that this whole bull shit is government related that they would be able to look it up for them self and verify his being here all these decades.

It's been kind of a rat for us. They gave my ex husband who is my best of friend and like a brother to me a real run for his money about how long has he been in the United States. I have been in my basement digging up every up every kind of legal document you can think of for the last three days, anything with his signature that was dated through out the 80's and the 90's to prove he was in the USA way back then. You would think being that this whole bull shit is government related that they would be able to look it up for them self and verify his being here all these decades.

No, this is where it really gets stupid. He had a Green Card but in the early 90's he went to federal prison, got released and Immigration picked him up in which we had to post a $14,000.00 for him. A couple years later at his hearing he was court ordered deported. Being Iraqi they don't send them back even if they are "deported" . They just stay here with no status, no work permit, no nothing. He has applied to get the hell out of here and go to at least 30 other countries but being a criminal no one would accept him. He has begged the USA government for the last 17 years to let him go home to Iraq. They refuse to let him go and it's the same for his 3 co-defendants. They are also court ordered deported and not allowed to return to Iraq so they are here with no status.

As much as he has been through the federal system including coming here in the first place you would think they would have record of everything.

Any how we got it done and sorted out. I think he is going to have Blue Cross Blue Shield but I don't know the terms. I know I really didn't have time to spend the last 3 days in my basement digging up 25 years worth of documents for something the government should have in their system and the countless things they should have on record to verify him.

Your expecting the federal government to be accountable and responsible?

Quoting 1stmuslimah:

It's been kind of a rat for us. They gave my ex husband who is my best of friend and like a brother to me a real run for his money about how long has he been in the United States. I have been in my basement digging up every up every kind of legal document you can think of for the last three days, anything with his signature that was dated through out the 80's and the 90's to prove he was in the USA way back then. You would think being that this whole bull shit is government related that they would be able to look it up for them self and verify his being here all these decades.

They are the ones who brought him here as a refugee, gave him a Visa, gave him a Green Card, took it away, held him several times over the years in Immigration facilities, made him report once a month to an Immigration officer to be sure that even though they deported him that he didn't leave the country lol, they gladly took our $14,000.00 and now they need my documents to prove he was here... stupid.

"At least 6 million people have signed up for health coverage on the new marketplaces, about one-third of whom were previously uninsured… At least 4.5 million previously uninsured adults have signed up for state Medicaid programs, according to Rand's unpublished survey data, which were shared with The Times… An additional 3 million young adults have gained coverage in recent years through a provision of the law that enables dependent children to remain on their parents' health plans until they turn 26, according to national health insurance surveys from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… About 9 million people have bought health plans directly from insurers, instead of using the marketplaces, Rand found. The vast majority of these people were previously insured… Fewer than a million people who had health plans in 2013 are now uninsured because their plans were canceled for not meeting new standards set by the law, the Rand survey indicates."

These clearly aren't final numbers. I'm particularly interested in the issue you bring up about young and healthy people signing up. The longer they sit on that data, the more pessimistic I become about it.

Quoting jcrew6:

Yet, no details on how many are paying ObamaCare enrollees, how any are the ones who lost their healthcare when the Obama admin went on their lying campaign tour, ans how many are expanded Medicaid recipients. Most importantly -how many are the young and healthy paying enrollees needed to fund ObamaCare. Obama momma fools will celebrate the 7 million without demanding accountability.

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